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History

Overview

The First Team

The Second Team

This team of mutants was sent by the authority of Earth-TRN113 when the first recon force had been destroyed by Forge's efforts[1]. Those were looking for realities with less of mutants to defend them, having been affected by the M-Day, in order to annex them for an unknown reason linked to a speculated toxicity of the Ghost Boxes, trans-reality transportation devices.

They invest the city of Tian as a base of operation. They were tracked during their mission of observations on the X-Men and mutants of Earth-616 by the "New Mutants".

Using the "Triploid Mutant"'s notebook, the X-Men visited Chaparanga[4], a garbage dump for alien ships. There X-13 had found a power-source and a shelter in one of the ships still in the air, but was followed and cornered by the X-Men, and prefer suicide rather than surrender.

The heroes then followed an other trail leading to Tian, where they captured the last artificial mutant and terminated the two remaining scouts, an inhibitor and a laser-striker, after having obtained from the three exotic mutants the name of the man behind the current Secret War: Forge.

This one revealed to the X-Men the history of his Secret War, and indicate that there was been already two teams of scouts, and possibly others would come. The alternate realityEarth was seemingly destroyed, but Armor made the hypothesis of a stating area[1].

Paraphernalia

Notes

Those teams were never named officially, and designated as "Annex Squads" by Forge.[1] A few other names were used to designate them: "Tree Men"[3], "His friends"[6], "the 13s"[7], "a recon force"[2], "alternate-world mutants"[2], "the first team",[1] "the second team".[1]

The name "Annex Squads" also used for the invading forces ravaging Earth-92272,[8] and seems the more appropriate.